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Commons

The commons are the cultural and natural resources accessible to all members of a society, including natural materials such as air, water, and a habitable Earth. These resources are held in common even when owned privately or publicly. Commons can also be understood as natural resources that groups of people (communities, user groups) manage for…

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Commons

Nodes119
Edges118
Triples140
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.016807
Components1

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Commons

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related to External links · 24
Commons → Aalto University Special Interest, Commons Archived, Commons Conference, Economics, Finland, Great Britain, Group, Helsinki, IASC, Infrastructuring, Internet, Journal, On, P2P Lab, Peer Foundation, Public, SIG, Study, The Commons Strategies Group, The Commons Transition Primer
related to Successful commons · 11
Commons → Allied, Carol, Elinor Ostrom, For, Nobel Prize, Ostrom, Rose, Swiss Alps, This, While, Work
related to Tragedy of the commons · 11
Commons → Forster's, Garrett Hardin, Hardin, Hardin's, However, In, Ostrom, Studies, The, The Tragedy, William Forster Lloyd
related to Definition and modern use · 10
Commons → As Frank, Elinor Ostrom, English, Garrett Hardin, Hardin's, Laerhoven, Prior, The, The Digital Library, The Tragedy
related to Energy commons · 10
Commons → Chris Giotitsas, Dimitris Kitsikopoulos, Energy Internet, Giotitsas, Kostakis, Matthew Burke, Robert Wade, The, Thomas Bauwens, Vasilis Kostakis
related to Feminist perspectives · 10
Commons → Examples, Feminism, For, Politics, Secondly, Silvia Federici, Since, This, Women, World Bank
related to Commoning as a process · 9
Commons → Alex Pazaitis, Commoning, David Harvey, Scholars, Some, These, They, Vasilis Kostakis, Wolfgang Drechsler
related to Pressures for commons in the modern world · 6
Commons → Dietz, Environmental, Globalized, Ostrom, Stern, Thus
see also · 6
Commons → Citizen's, CommonInternational Association, CommonsKnowledge, CommonsThe Goose, Public, Study
related to Can Batlló Community Space in Barcelona, Spain · 5
Commons → Can Batlló, Completed, Located, They, This

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resources community shared urban resource use land common local also public social cultural tragedy management collective state common-pool water natural

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Commonsis aconcept to describe international0.90text
Commonsis aexample of a community forging supportive relationships with local governments that support their interests and ability to effectively self-manage a commons for collective good0.90text
airinstance ofincluding natural materials0.80text
waterinstance ofincluding natural materials0.80text
and a habitable Earthinstance ofincluding natural materials0.80text
Baggio et al. have continued to analyze what factors support the successful management of the commonsinstance ofother scholars0.80text
common-pool resourcesinstance ofother scholars0.80text
Can Batllóinstance ofas well as successful pre-existing examples0.80text
tontineinstance ofcredit associations0.80text
fishinstance ofresources0.80text
timbre are traded on global marketsinstance ofresources0.80text
and there are climateinstance ofresources0.80text

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